▪ I. † ˈrangat1 Sc. Obs.
[Of obscure origin.]
Disorder, disturbance, noise.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxvi. 30 Gude rewle is banist our the Bordour, And rangat ringis but ony ordour. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 294 For feiring of thair fo, Tha tuke the gait without rangat till go. |
▪ II. † ˈrangat2 Sc. Obs.
[var. rangald rangale, perh. after prec.; but cf. the Sc. pron. of the surname Donald as Donnat.]
Rabble.
| 1535 [see ringat-rangat]. 1606 W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1883) 20 At first they held their Abbay burials royall, yet in the end they were for pryce exposed to the rangat. |